Unwritten laws about charging?

Ask him how much he pays for electricity there. It's about 6.63 KW from dead to full. Then pay the (ahem, guy)

better yet, get one of these and you will know exactly how much energy you consumed.

Smart EV charging adapter | Reduced emissions, clean energy

 

no, i don't understand the thought process of a free charge. especially for the competition. let's face it, you're never going to buy a leaf, and certainly not because nissan let you charge for free.

 

Superchargers aren't free. On first release, only the 85kWh Model S came with the lifetime access standard. For the others, it was a $2000 option when gotten with the car, and $2500 to $3000 to get it after you took delivery.

 

most toyota dealers don't even know where the charger is, or how to use it.

 

Leaf's are the best option for an Ev right now. They're decent cars, they're dirt cheap and they come with "Nissan's no charge to charge" which is actually much more available than the Supercharger network. We've got 12 pure Ev's at my office - 1 Smart Ev and 11 Leaf's. I was in one the other day. We stopped at Costco and used the CHAdeMO charger in the parking lot - 380V and 100A = 38kW. That's a 10% every four minutes. It was at 99% when we go out half an hour later. The nearest Supercharger is 25 miles across town.

 

they're not giving them away around here for some reason, but used are cheap. i haven't looked closely, but suspect it's too small for me.

 

You might like the cargo area. It's the opposite of a Prius Prime - super deep. It's narrower and shorter, however, and even more unflat (in the other direction) from a Prime. I was surprised at how little fit in there from the store because there's limits as to how high you can stack stuff without crushing the stuff on the bottom or having it all tip over when you are driving. The Prime's cargo area is more useful to me despite the lack of height. I still haven't had anything I couldn't fit because it was interfering with the glass.

The Leaf is also a five-seater.

 

nah, i like it broad, deep and high, like the pip. i'm too spoiled to downsize. as it is, i'm 97% electric, and 13% go anywhere i want to.

 

so...around the block, and back?

 

Answer.....Dealers are private entities. The only thing that they're "expected" to do is sell cars.
Add to this, they are covered by insurance companies that are also private entities, and adopting a "come one, come all" policy opens them up to an unneeded liability burden - especially when most of the "customers" aren't even driving the cars that THEY sell, or maintain.

So.....If a rich uncle died and left me a Nissan dealership and forced me to keep it, there are some things that I would do....(fire people, review pricing structures, etc....) and one of these would be to open my chargers up to the EV public in the hopes that some of them will come to my dealership when they needed their oil changed, or when the Leaf 2.0 comes out.
I'd also see if I could write it off somehow as advertising or get dot.gov to give me a tax kickback for being "green."
However........(comma!) I would remind EV drivers that this is an accommodation that I am making, and not in any way a privilege.

If that many EV drivers are going to that Y, I would also put an honor-box suggesting that the EV drivers pop a quarter into the till when they stop by and publish the results....like the coffee can at work that always has a penny and a half dollar in it.

 

it's your electric bill, the whole thing is an expense, deducted from sales = taxable profit.